Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.

As it upheld the dismissal of a complaint against a doctor, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that doctors who offer proper ...

Pro-life medical groups are urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to reexamine the FDA’s broad ...

From our earliest days in medical school, we learned that treatment requires a patient’s informed consent. What is less often taught is how to obtain that consent in a manner that withstands legal ...

Much has changed since the last guideline of 2008, both in endoscopy and in the practice of obtaining informed consent, and it is vital that all endoscopists who are responsible for performing ...

Background Record linkage is a useful tool for health research. Potential benefits aside, its use raises discussions on privacy issues, such as whether a written informed consent for access to health ...

Some philosophers have argued that during the process of obtaining informed consent, physicians should try to nudge their patients towards consenting to the option the physician believes best, where a ...